Jury verdict: Guilty of 15 counts of sexual abuse of two students.
Sentenced: to 2 years in prison, 5 years probation, and registration as a sex offender for life.
ARRESTED: Mar 16 - Curtis Buell, 25, a Churchill High School teacher, was arrested Friday on charges of sexual abuse.
A grand jury indicted Buell on 17 counts of sexual ab
use. Police spokeswoman Melinda Kletzok confirms that Buell is a former Churchill teacher and the police have been investigating him since last October.
Mar 20 - KPIC investigated and found his MySpace page before it was taken down.
Then, with a quick Internet search, we were able to find Buell's my space page just before it was taken down.While it may seem crazy and unreal for a teacher to describe himself as influential and sexy on the my space page where he communicated with students, here Curtis Buell writes directly to them, saying "hey kids Uncle Curti back again."Detective Ted Williams with the Eugene Police Department tells us, "victims were forced one way or another to do something they didn't want to do."
In addition, KPIC says There is a lot of information police won't share because it could compromise the case. But they tell us there could be other victims at Churchill as well as at North Eugene High and Madison Middle School where Buell was a student-teacher.
TRIAL: August 15 - Buell's trial has started. The prosecutor said Buell placed more than 1,000 phone calls to one of the victims and "several hundred" to the other at all hours of the late evening and early morning.
The case came to light after one of the victims told her boyfriend a few details, which led him to tell his parents, who then called police and school officials. Both of the girls initially denied Buell had touched them inappropriately.
DELIBERATIONS: August 22 - The jury is deliberating. During the course of his five-day trial in Lane County Circuit Court, two counts were dropped and a first-degree count that carried a mandatory six-year, three-month prison term was reduced to a lesser charge.
GUILTY VERDICT: August 22 - The jury found Curtis Neal Buell guilty on 15 counts of sexual abuse of two 17 year old female students That's 11 counts of sex abuse in the third degree and four counts of sex abuse in the second degree.
He will have to register as a sex offender. He will be sentenced October 17.
SENTENCED Oct 31 - Buell was sentenced to two years in prison, followed by five years supervised probation and must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
